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Original caption: First complete Bible printed in Greek. Edited by Andreas Asolanus, father-in-law of Aldus. The text is based largely upon the Complutensian Polyglot for the Old Testament, and upon Erasmus' first edition of the New Testament in...

Original caption: This Hebrew Bible was compiled and printed in seventeen 16 mo. volumes by the greatest scholar-printer of all times, Robert Stephanus; it was based on the text of Jacob Chayim of Tunis. Francis I appointed Robert Stephanus king's...

Original caption: The first Bible in English to be printed in America was issued to fill a need created by war, since no Bibles were being imported. In 1781 Aitkens petitioned Congress for endorsement and financial aid to issue this Bible. On...

Original caption: The Louvain Bible, edited by Johannes Hentenius,-practically a reprint of R. Stephanus' Bible of 1538-40-was published by Christopher Plantin with the Summa Privilegii of King Philip of Spain. At the time this Bible was being...

Original caption: The first Bible from the famous press of Nicolas Jenson, the French printer from whose Venetian press came nearly a hundred of the finest books produced in the fifteenth century. When Jenson issued a second edition of the Latin...

Original caption: The first printed Latin Bible with glosses, made by Adolph Rusch for the noted Nuremberg printer and publisher Anton Koberger. The marginal glosses are by Strabo, a ninth century writer and the interlinear notes by Anselmus of...

Original caption: This was the second issue of an octavo Bible, the first having been issued by the same printer in 1491. From its small size, this is known as the "Poor Man's Bible". Johann Froben was the celebrated Basel printer who for many...

Original caption: First edition of the Latin Bible in which catch words were used. This version Contains N. de Lyra's celebrated commentary, Postillae litterales et morales. The interlinear notes are in small type, which is seldom found. Most of...

Original caption: In a Bible printed later in this same year, Luther's Warnung wieder den Geiz, occurs for the first time, complaining of incorrect pirated editions of his text. This Leipzig, Europe, Germany, Saxony, Leipzig districtedition,...

Original caption: The second version of the English Bible, edited by John Rogers, who wrote under the pseudonym of Thomas Matthew, either in fear of his life or to conceal the fact that a considerable part of this Bible was from the condemned...

Original caption: Third octavo edition of the Latin Bible issued by the famous family of scholar printers, the Stephani or Estiennes. This issue, the work of the most eminent scholar of his day, Robert Stephanus, is generally considered to be the...

Original caption: The earliest edition of the complete Bible in Spanish. It was translated by C. de Reina, a monk who, becoming one of the Spanish Reformers, had to flee to England, and later to the Continent. A copy was sent to Queen Elizabeth...

Original caption: The first edition of the Roman Catholic Bible in English. The translators were scholars exiled for their religion by Queen Elizabeth. Outstanding among them were Allen, Martin, Bristow, and Worthington. The publication was delayed...

Original caption: This Bible, known as the "Authorized Version," has been given the tribute of being "the noblest book in the English language." It represents the work of fifty committee members, and was seen through the press by Miles Smith and...

Original caption: This Bible, known as the "Authorized Version," has been given the tribute of being "the noblest bookk in the English kanguage." It represents the work of fifty committee members, and was seen through the press by Miles Smith and...

Original caption: This edition, commonly called Pearl Bible, no doubt on account of its being the first English Bible to use the diminutive size type generally known by that name. Many omissions and printer's errors occur: 1 Corinthians vi. 9:...

Original caption: The Standard Bible of the Dutch Reformed Church, compiled by Biblical scholars of the 'various provinces of the Netherlands. These were appointed in 1619. Funds were furnished by the States-General to start work in 1628, and the...

Original caption: A leaf from the second edition of Eliot's Bible, revised by the editor, with the assistance of John Cotton. The Indian Bible (first issued in 1663) was the first scripture printed in North America, and also the first version...

Original caption: The first issue, in America, of the Bible printed in a European language. Luther's version was used, with additions from the mystic Berlenburg Bible and an appendix to the New Testament prepared by Saur himself. The printer...

Original caption: The second edition of the first Bible issued in a literary tongue in North America, printed by Christopher Sauer, the younger. Luther's version was adopted for the text. The third issue of 3000 (1776) was still unbound when the...